This module asks the user to select a file from the filesystem. It uses the Command-line user-interface Term::Clui to dialogue with the user. It offers Rescan and ShowAll buttons. To ease the re-learning burden for the programmer, the options are modelled on those of Tk::FileDialog and of Tk::SimpleFileSelect, but various new options are introduced, namely -TopDir, -TextFile, -Readable, -Writeable, -Executable, -Owned and -Directory

Multiple choice is possible in a limited circumstance; when file_select is invoked in a list context, with -Chdir=>0 and without -Create. It is currently not possible to select multiple files lying in different directories.

Sets the default file selection pattern, in glob format, e.g. *.html. Only files matching this pattern will be displayed. If you want multiple patterns, you can use formats like *.[ch] or {*.cgi,*.pl} - see File::Glob for more details. The default is "*".